Check out this AWESOME Random House Kids Instagram Video for SKYBORN!

Find out how the epic #ThonesandBones trilogy ends in #LouAnders' thrilling conclusion: SKYBORN. Available now wherever books are sold! @thrones_and_bones

A video posted by randomhousekids (@randomhousekids) on Sep 6, 2016 at 8:16am PDT

Jon Steward on The War on The War on Women

 

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Hey, Why Not Try the Necronomicon?

Via io9

Robyn Hitchcock in "Black Cab Sessions"

Via YepRoc: Yep Roc artist Robyn Hitchcock is the latest musician to take part in the Black Cab Sessions. The Black Cab Sessions is a series of one-song performances by musicians and poets recorded in the back of a black taxicab. The sessions are recorded while the cab that serves as the studio travels through city streets, usually in London, England. The motto of the Black Cab Sessions is "one song, one take, one cab." 

Robyn Hitchcock's latest release Propellor Time (Sartorial Records) features guest appearances from Nick Lowe, Johnny Marr, John Paul Jones, Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and more. Propellor Time is available now on limited-edition import CD/LP and for digital download at the Yep Roc Webshop while supplies last. 

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Unfolding Earth

Via New Scientist:

John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats on the Colbert Report

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Sherlock Holmes

I think I am going to love this, as long as I forget everything I ever knew.

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film as "Fun, Watchable"

Oh god this is brilliant:


Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

A Study in Online Community Building

This isn't gonna fit on my blog, but you can full screen it or follow it back home to see it all.



TOC ‘09 Conference— “Where Do You Go with 40,000 Readers? A Study in Online Community Building” — Ron Hogan (Beatrice.com), John Scalzi (Scalzi Consulting), Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books), Tobias Buckell

The Flying Suit: 21st Century Sports

Via Jon Armstrong:


wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.

It's just sick how close to the rocks and the ground they get, isn't it?

Garrett Lisi: A beautiful new theory of everything

Via Ted.com, a beautiful theory from a fascinating guy:

Watch Me Boldly Go Nowhere

Richard Amirault has very kindly alerted me to the fact that a video he recorded of a panel I did at Boskone 44 is now online. The panel was called To Boldly Go: Ethic Issues in Star Trek Through the Years. I was on the panel because of my five years spent working on the magazine, Star Trek Monthly, a time during which I conducted hundreds of interviews with the Trek casts and production crews and spent a great deal of time in the production offices talking with the show's producers and writers. Also on the panel are Suford Lewis and David Gerrold (aka Mr. Tribble). David pretty much dominates the panel, and really he was who the audience was there to see, though I hope I do contribute some thoughts of value. (And hey, for a bit of comedy, watch my bemused exasperation as I'm pretty much dissed by the moderator before I've even begun to speak!) Anyway, the video is online here as a downloadable RealPlayer file, and, perhaps of greater use and interest, you can see the full list of recorded panels here at the Science Fiction Fandom site. And thanks Richard. I'd love to see more convention panels show up like this.